Today on this 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid we are going to install part number V82211 from Valley. First off we will show you were the attachment points are going to be. These three holes will be used, and this is on the drivers side frame rail. It is going to be identical on the passenger side frame rail, except the exhaust will be hanging down below, but it should not pose a problem, we should not have to deal with that at all. :25
To begin our install the first thing we are going to need to do is fish wire our hardware into the frame. What we are going to do is run our fish wire from one of the holes, out the end of the frame here. At this point we will go ahead and attach our hardware and pull it back through. Put it in the hole, pull it out the other side, the leader is kind of short here, so make sure you do not pull it all the way through the other side. First we will put our plate onto the leader and push it into the frame. Then we will take our bolt and thread it onto our leader and take the whole assembly and pull it back through. We will do the same steps for these two holes here. 1:00
At this point we can go ahead and install the hitch. What we are going to do is rest the passengers side half onto the exhaust, and we will go back over to the drivers side and get the bolts started there. We have our hitch in position now, we can put the rest of the hardware into place. The flat washer, lock washer, and nut. Once you have all the bolts in place and the hitch installed loosely, move the hitch to the center of the bumper. Now we can snug everything down to hand tight. Looking at the exhaust side we can see how the hitch goes around the exhaust which is not a big deal, however you will see that the bolt right here is right above the exhaust, there is no straight shot access to it to tighten it down. In this case we are going to lower the exhaust to get enough room to tighten down that one bolt. 2:53
We will put some lubricant on the hanger. We are going to remove the hanger in the front and the hanger in the back. Then we will torque the bolts down as specified in the instructions. Once we have our bolts torqued down all we have to do is reinstall our exhaust and that will finish our install. 2:32
From the center of the pin hole to the edge of the bumper is about 1 inch. The top of the receiver tube down to the ground on this particular vehicle is 15 inches. And there yo have it for part number V82211 from Valley.
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